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There are new requirements for people visiting China on business. In addition to a completed visa form, passport and extra photo, you will need to produce the following:

- Visa Notification Form issued by the relevant department of Chinese government or the government-authorized company.

- A copy of your Chinese hotel booking; and

- A copy of your outward and return flight ticket booking.

More information can be found on the website of the Chinese Embassy in the UK:

http://uk.china-embassy.org/eng/lsyw/chivisa/t424261.htm

ContractStore can also help you - we have a range of dual-language commercial contracts in Chinese and English that you can download from our website. Have a look at the full list here:

http://www.contractstore.com/chinese-contracts

We also have a free download on ‘Doing Business in China’

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ContractStore had a fantastic time at the Business Start-Up exhibition in the Docklands ExCel centre for a couple of days (27-28 April).

We met 100’s of entrepreneurs at the show, including Caprice Bouret, supermodel and now head of a highly successful lingerie and swimwear business.

We thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone and we learnt a great deal about what start-ups are looking for and the problems they face. It’s going to be extremely useful to us as we develop the ContractStore business, so a big thank you to everyone who came and talked to us about their needs and experiences.

Don’t forget we are also running a prize draw for a half-case of champagne. Just go to the survey online to take part.

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Very many businesses have no proper system for ordering goods and services so we have come up with a set of forms to remedy the problem.

This is to ensure help you keep a proper record of all your orders. This can be useful in many ways, especially to ensure that the key terms are complied with by your supplier.

The order form is prepared with a space for signature by both purchaser and supplier, so you should, ideally, issue two signed copies, one for each signatory.

There are four forms in the new collection:

• Purchase Order for Goods
• Purchase Order for Services
• Acceptance of Order for Goods
• Acceptance of Order for Services.

You can also download the full set and save about 50% of the price - click here.

Like all our documents they are in Word format so you can edit directly before use.

These are a key set of basic documents that are great to have especially if you are starting up.

If you have had a problem with purchase orders or similar agreements we’d like to hear about it.

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This Monday,10th December, the Construction Industry Council (CIC)published the CIC Consultants’ Contract and Scope of Services. The contract is a new multi-disciplinary form for use across the UK by experienced clients (employers or design and build contractors) appointing teams of consultants on major building projects.

At ContractStore we have for some time had a professional appointment for sale on our website which has a similar objective and is designed for use by a client appointing a number of different consultants on a construction project. Our document is in a form that will be familiar to, and accepted by, most construction lawyers as well as being easily understood by clients, whether experienced or not. For more information, go to http://www.contractstore.com/consultant

We have not yet reviewed the CIC appointment but will do so soon. As anyone engaged on a construction project will know, each professional organisation tends to promote its own form for use by its members - architects, quantity surveyors, etc., and these forms tend to be very different in style and language as well as too protective of the professional. What a client needs is a set of appointments with broadly similar terms and conditions and the CIC form - like ours- should be helpful in this respect.

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PRIVACY POLICY

Introduction

We [name of company] are incorporated in England carrying on business as [brief description - e.g. suppliers of widgets] and we are committed to protecting any data that we collect concerning you. By using our services you agree to the use of the data that we collect in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We are committed to protecting your privacy

We collect the minimum amount of information about you that is commensurate with providing you with a satisfactory service. This Policy indicates the type of processes that may result in data being collected about you. Your use of this website gives us the right to collect that information.

Information Collected

We may collect any or all of the information that you give us depending on the type of transaction you enter into, including your name, address, telephone number, fax number and email address, together with data about your use of the website. Other information that may be needed from time to time to process a request may also be collected as indicated on the website.

[Data in relation to credit card payments is processed by [name of organisation] on a secure website linked to ours and they have their own privacy policy.]

Information Use

We use the information collected primarily to process the task for which you visited the website. Data collected in the UK is held in accordance with the Data Protection Act. All reasonable precautions are taken to prevent unauthorised access to this information. This safeguard may require you to provide additional forms of identity should you wish to obtain information about your account details.

Cookies

Your Internet browser has the in-built facility for storing small files - “cookies” - that hold information which allows a website to recognise your account. Our website takes advantage of this facility to enhance your experience. You have the ability to prevent your computer from accepting cookies but, if you do, certain functionality on the website may be impaired.

Disclosing Information

We do not disclose any personal information obtained about you from this website to third parties except when we need to do so in order to complete the transaction - e.g. when arranging for a courier company to deliver goods that you have ordered. We may also use the information to keep in contact with you and inform you of developments associated with our business. You will be given the opportunity to remove yourself from any mailing list or similar device. If at any time in the future we should wish to disclose information collected on this website to any third party, it would only be with your knowledge and consent.

We may from time to time provide information of a general nature to third parties - for example, the number of individuals visiting our website or completing a registration form, but we will not use any information that could identify those individuals.

Changes to this Policy

Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be placed here and will supersede this version of our Policy. We will take reasonable steps to draw your attention to any changes in our Policy. However, to be on the safe side, we suggest that you read this document each time you use the website to ensure that it still meets with your approval.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, or if you want to know what information we have collected about you, please email us at [insert email address]. You can also correct any factual errors in that information or require us to remove your details form any list under our control.

Privacy Policy written by ContractStore Ltd - Business Contracts.

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We’re really pleased with the results of the free website privacy policy which was launched in May.

We’ve noticed that a number of web designers have been using the privacy policy as a standard in their new website builds, and have linked back to our main site.

Moma is a graphic design agency, which is responsible for some of the strange places that our privacy policy has turned up… including a site dedicated to Anti Gravity Boots! And Mike Young Designs have used the policy for their main website.

We’d love feedback about the privacy policy, and if you’ve used it for your site.

Or if you want to make any suggestions for legal resources you would like - particularly for use online, please feel free to comment below and we’ll look into the best ideas.

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